Everyone gripes about El Paso Water but I just learned about a certain practice that doesn’t really make sense to me. It has to do with losing your recycle bin.
I know peeps who had their blue recycle bin taken away because, (EP Water says), something was tossed into it that shouldn’t have been. We all make mistakes right? Even El Paso Water who apparently recently purchased a lake and a dam without inspecting the dam.
“Dam” near flooded Paisano street in the Upper Valley. Oops. Anyway …
El Paso Water Seizes Recycle Bins
If you violate the recycling rules, you could lose your blue bin. I get that, it’s what happens next that I think is kinda dumb. Once your bin gets locked up, you can’t have it back until you take a class in the proper use of it. Ok, I guess … thing is, you don’t have to get it back. In fact you don’t have to use the one you have now.
Why Is Seizing Recycling Bins Dumb?
It basically turns someone who isn’t using it correctly into someone who doesn’t use it at all. The goal is to encourage recycling, not make it stop…